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JOHN BALL (1585-1640)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 263 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN BALL (1585-1640)  ,
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English puritan divine, was born at Cassington, Oxfordshire, in
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October 1585 . After taking his B.A. degree from St Mary's Hall, Oxford, in 16o8, he went into
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Cheshire to act as tutor to the children of Lady Cholmondeley . He adopted Puritan views, and after being ordained without subscription, was appointed to the small curacy of Whitmore in
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Staffordshire . He was soon deprived by John Bridgeman, the high church bishop of Chester, who put him to much suffering . He became a schoolmaster and earned a wide and high reputation for his scholarship and piety . He died on the loth of October 164o . The most popular of his numerous
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works was A Short Catechisme, containing all the
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Principal Grounds of Religion (14
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editions before 1632) . His
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Treatise of Faith (1632), and Friendly Trial of the Grounds tending to Separation (164o), the latter of which defines his position with regard to the church, are also valuable .

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